I finally made it home from the tuffet workshop in North Carolina. It was such fun and I learned so much that I felt like tuffets were falling out of my ears. But after a good night's sleep in my own bed, I'm ready to roll! Here are some highlights from the workshop!

First up: my array of strips:

I used a set of 2 1/2 inch strips, though if you are making them from your stash, you can get away with smaller strips. However, the convenience of using a ready-made strip roll can't be beat!

Getting a good start on my tuffet top here.

Several sections later and we have my tuffet top! The colors are pretty, but it looks pretty sad and droopy.

However, add it to this (which we made on day two):

and then we have.... almost a tuffet! Well, almost. At this point, I'd call it a pouf, but it needs to have that cute dimple to really be a tuffet. I don't have photos of me working on mine (not enough hands to hold a camera!) but I do have some of fellow tuffet affiliates.

Sharyn is showing Judy how to make sure the tuffet is beautifully rounded without unsightly bumps.

Here's Karena getting to know her tuffet inside and out while feeding the button cords through.

And here is the adorable Marti showing the pneumatic staple gun who's boss.

A few finishing steps later, add some feet and voila, we have tuffets!